Daniel J. Reynolds

For them what celebrates, happy Cinco de Mayo.

Some folks have a need to imagine that other folks, especially folks who are different from them, are as miserable as they are.

“He really puts the scatology into eschatology.”

Some people are bitter losers in an essential way. "I got cheated" is so central to their outlook that they see cheats, liars, and grifters everywhere all the time.

@Dirklandjay In true and enduring love, habituation succeeds infatuation.

I can text a joke to my wife, count to five and predict the exact moment the eye roll emoji reply will appear. It’s called love

Lit happens. Except when it doesn't.

The career prerequisites for poetry are many years feeling, thinking, and muttering to oneself.

@Fredosphere @minordissent @dystopiangf Michel Houllebecq reading group begins when?

@minordissent @dystopiangf Another high-openness conservative checking in. I'm lonely; will someone please be my friend?

Conservatives are largely wrong about aesthetics. We shouldn’t look to the past for beauty. The solution to modern ugliness is not to copy-paste Greek statues or Renaissance oil paintings; this would actually be an expression of defeat and creative infertility, a humiliation, an admission that our imagination has been beaten out of us. We’ve been traumatized by anti-Western left-wing movements to believe that anything new must also be ugly and filthy. The answer to the trauma we’ve suffered is not to be afraid or to regress, but to boldly create something new *and beautiful.* This is right-wing futurism at its core: the conviction that new and beautiful things are possible, and that it’s our primary duty to create them

Do you ever think about the fact that apartments are all stuck together?

@jacob_allee “Vignette” is an excellently adequate word. We should use it more often.

There is no such thing as a prose poem, but if there were it would be have to be written by a married bachelor.

It's easy to be right about what is wrong. Being right about what is right often difficult.

Being transgressive today means writing things that the HR ladies find offensive and the church ladies find amusing.

Ask your doctor if nothing is right for you.

@Dirklandjay @StevenEKnepper Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@StevenEKnepper Meanwhile, I’m looking for full episodes of the cartoon, Mask, from the late ‘80s. We’re both scholars

Canadian poet friends--is there a way to stream the 2006 Heart of a Poet episode about Karen Solie?

A girl in a dress crosses the street in the rain— I am still alive

@Fredosphere I identify as a "victim of public education."

So many great reactions. Mine doesn't focus on too many specific abuses; it was more a growing realization as I matured that the obscene waste of time which was public school was all so unnecessary.